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All My Friends Are English Majors

Emily Tucker

85 episodes

7 months ago

What's the difference between a good book and a book that makes us feel good? All My Friends are English Majors is a literature podcast that attempts to answer this question. Hosted by Emily Tucker (not an English Major) and a month-long guest host (an English Major), we'll read and discuss popular fiction. New episodes on Wednesdays!

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What's the difference between a good book and a book that makes us feel good? All My Friends are English Majors is a literature podcast that attempts to answer this question. Hosted by Emily Tucker (not an English Major) and a month-long guest host (an English Major), we'll read and discuss popular fiction. New episodes on Wednesdays!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes (20/85)

All My Friends Are English Majors

"everyone wants to know"

mom and emily read "everyone wants this" by Kelly Loy Gilbert! Spoiler, we accidentally had a 30 minute phone call where we discussed everything before recording...

we discuss social media, our relationships to our own moms, and the importance of not having too many plotlines in your book.

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8 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes 7 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

mom and emily have made their way forward in time to the 2000s. we're reading dairy queen, a book about a teenage girl who runs a dairy farm and goes out for the football team. in this episode, we talk about the lack of social media and phones in this book, the master class on how to talk about the size and shape of someone's body (if you must) that catherine murdock puts on, and the joy of coming from a family that isn't quiet. tune in next week for a recent piece of YA fiction, everyone wants to know.

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9 months ago

1 hour 24 minutes 49 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

"up a road slowly"

this month, emily and jane (mom!!!!!) are talking about ya fiction and how it has changed through time. in this episode, i reckon with the fact that i was reading ya as many as FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, among other things. this week, we read up a road slowly by irene hunt, and discuss having a village instead of a nuclear family, the importance of breaking cyclical family dynamics, and how publishing worked before amazon. next week, we'll move into the aughts and talk all things dairy queen.

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9 months ago

1 hour 29 minutes 22 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

netflix adaptation month conclusion

kayla and tuck discuss basically everything in the world except these three books. when we do manage to talk about the books, we talk about the importance of having an editor (a common theme), the craziest plotline, and whether or not we're too old to be reading YA.

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10 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes 57 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

"to all the boys i've loved before"

kayla and tuck read the #1 netflix book to movie adaptation (in tuck's heart). we discuss what a breath of fresh air it is to read a book that clearly had an editor, as well as the stanford complex and noah centineo's innate lack of charm in anything besides this film. tune in next week for our netflix adaptation conclusion!

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11 months ago

1 hour 9 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

"the law of tall girls"

this week, tuck and kayla read the inspo for the netflix movie tall girl (we think)! we discuss teachers getting fired, how CPS might have been good just this once, and the various insane things put down in ink in this book.

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12 months ago

1 hour 12 minutes 5 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

"the kissing booth"

womp womp womp we read another book that shoulda stayed fanfiction!! kayla is back for another month and this time we're reading netflix teen comedy adaptations. what is a cinematic masterpiece (the kissing booth) is about 400 pages too long. we discuss british-isms, weirdly chill parents, and yet another teen attending harvard. tune in next week for the rule of tall girls!

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1 year ago

1 hour 5 minutes 5 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

fairy tale month conclusion

emily and betsy finish out fairy tale month with recs, goodreads reviews, and general convos about what we like so much about re-written fairytales. asides include Lily James' blood diamond campaign and the importance of getting out of your reading comfort zone

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1 year ago

59 minutes 20 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

"the girls at the kingfisher club"

emily and betsy are discussing our third fairy tale- the 12 dancing princesses. we read "the girls at the kingfisher club" by genevieve valentine! spoiler alert, we went three for three on liking the books for this month! we discuss strong heroines, why men keep trying to send women to asylums, and the importance of the bell curve.

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1 year ago

1 hour 4 minutes 3 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

tuck and betsy read east by edith pattou for our second book in fairytale month! we discuss the purple eyed YA heroine, how refreshing it is to read a well written book, and why we might be enjoying the non-grimms fairy tales better than the grimms.

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1 year ago

58 minutes 13 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

"a sorcery of thorns"

it's the first week of fairy tale month! betsy is back and we are talking about fairy tales. this week, we read a sorcery of thorns by maggie rogerson and discussed the orphanification of women, our differing opinions on age gaps in romantasy, and the main things we like about re-written fairy tales. tune in next week for edith pattou's east.

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1 year ago

1 hour 3 minutes 58 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

memoir month conclusion

tuck and claire discuss all three memoirs, what we like about memoirs, goodreads reviews of the books we read this month, and recs! next month is fairy tales!

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1 year ago

58 minutes 35 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

this week we deviated from the prompt and read rodham by curtis sittenfeld. mostly, this was so tuck could read another curtis sittenfeld book, but we did talk about hillary clinton, do some impressions, and discuss if the sex in this book ever needed to see the light of day. tune in next week for comp con!

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1 year ago

59 minutes 30 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

this week, tuck and claire read "educated" by tara westover! we talk about unreliable narrators (classic), empathy, and judging a book by it's cover. tune in next week when we read rodham by curtis sittenfeld!

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1 year ago

58 minutes 56 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

it's memoir month! tuck and claire read Shonda Rhimes' year of yes. we talk about an obsession with thinness, if motherhood should be considered a job, and our opinion on audio books. tuned in next week for tara westover's educated!

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1 year ago

52 minutes 26 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

music month conclusion

tuck and carlson are back to talk about all things music month! we talked about what we liked and didn't like, resources for finding books (listed here: smart bitches trashy books, novelist, and book page), and recs for if you want more books with themes like these. we'll be back with memoir month next week!

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1 year ago

1 hour 21 minutes 42 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

....and they were room mates.....

emily and tuck take on christina lauren's roomies this week on music month. we talk about broadway, dedication to your craft, and the importance of doing even one single google search before you write a story in an industry you don't know anything about <3. tune in next week for our music month conclusion!

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1 year ago

1 hour 27 minutes 40 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

"kiss the girl"

tuck and carlson take on our second musically themed book of the month: kiss the girl by zoraida cordova. this is a disney hyperion book so we spend time discussing the disney book machine, things about this book that were silly and fun, and all the other things we're having fun reading. tune in next week for roomies!

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1 year ago

1 hour 4 minutes 36 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

"last call at the local"

it's the month of the emilys!! tuck and her friend emily are reading music-related cartoon cover romances. this week, we read last call at the local by sara grunder ruiz! spoiler alert, we like talia hibbert's disability representation much better! this book was not about music and was not meant to be listened to on audio book so tuck specifically is 0 for 2 on this week. next week we are reading "kiss the girl" (it's not gay sorry to the fans).

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1 year ago

1 hour 27 minutes 5 seconds

All My Friends Are English Majors

Mom's Month Conclusion

it's the final week of books that moms love and anna and tuck are talking all things at month-end conclusion. we are ranking our curmudgeons, talking about good reads, and spend more than a little time discussing dramione fanfiction. tune in next month for rom coms about musicians!

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1 year ago

1 hour 16 minutes 6 seconds